War In North-West Pakistan
The points of the compass mark the divisions on a compass, which is
primarily divided into four points: north, south, east, and west.
These cardinal directions are further subdivided by the addition of
the four intercardinal (or ordinal) directions—northeast (NE),
southeast (SE), southwest (SW), and northwest (NW)—to indicate the
eight principal winds. In meteorological usage, further intermediate
points between cardinal and ordinal points, such as north-northeast
(NNE) are added to give the 16 points of a wind compass.[1]32-point compass roseAt the most complete division are the full thirty-two points of the
mariner's compass,[2] which adds points such as north by east (NbE)
between north and north-northeast, and northeast by north (NEbN)
between north-northeast and northeast
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Killed In ActionKilled in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by
militaries to describe the deaths of their own combatants at the hands
of hostile forces.[1] The
United StatesUnited States Department of Defense, for
example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their
weapons but have been killed due to hostile attack. KIAs do not come
from incidents such as accidental vehicle crashes and other
"non-hostile" events or terrorism. KIA can be applied both to
front-line combat troops and to naval, air and support troops. Someone
who is killed in action during a particular event is denoted with a
† (dagger) beside their name to signify their death in that event or
events.
Further, KIA denotes one to have been killed in action on the
battlefield whereas died of wounds (DOW) relates to someone who
survived to reach a medical treatment facility
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Tahrir Al-Sham
The historic region of
SyriaSyria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: Sura/i; Greek:
Συρία; in modern literature called Greater Syria,
Syria-Palestine, or the Levant) is an area located east of the
Mediterranean sea. The oldest attestation of the name
SyriaSyria is from
the 8th century BC in a bilingual inscription in Hieroglyphic Luwian
and Phoenician. In this inscription the Luwian word Sura/i was
translated to Phoenician ʔšr "Assyria."[1] For
HerodotusHerodotus in the 5th
century BC,
SyriaSyria extended as far north as the
Halys riverHalys river and as far
south as Arabia and Egypt. For
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela,
SyriaSyria covered the entire Fertile Crescent
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Islamic State Of IraqIslamIslam (/ˈɪslɑːm/)[note 1] is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion
teaching that there is only one
GodGod (Allah)[1] and that
MuhammadMuhammad is
the messenger of God.[2][3] It is the world's second-largest
religion[4] and the fastest-growing major religion in the
world,[5][6][7] with over 1.8 billion followers or 24.1% of the
global population,[8] known as Muslims.[9] Muslims make up a majority
of the population in 50 countries.[4]
IslamIslam teaches that
GodGod is
merciful, all-powerful, unique[10] and has guided mankind through
prophets, revealed scriptures and natural signs.[3][11] The primary
scriptures of
IslamIslam are the Quran, viewed by Muslims as the verbatim
word of God, and the teachings and normative example (called the
sunnah, composed of accounts called hadith) of
MuhammadMuhammad (c
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Anti-communismAnti-communismAnti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism
developed after the 1917 October
RevolutionRevolution in Russia and it reached
global dimensions during the Cold War, when the
United StatesUnited States and the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union engaged in an intense rivalry.
Anti-communismAnti-communism has been an
element of movements holding many different political positions,
including nationalist, social democratic, liberal, conservative,
fascist, capitalist, anarchist and even socialist viewpoints.
The first organization specifically dedicated to opposing communism
was the Russian White movement, which fought in the Russian Civil War
starting in 1918 against the recently established Communist
government
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AntisemitismAntisemitismAntisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is
hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.[1][2][3] A
person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism
is generally considered to be a form of racism.[4][5]
AntisemitismAntisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions
of hatred of or discrimination against individual
JewsJews to organized
pogroms by mobs, state police, or even military attacks on entire
Jewish communities. Although the term did not come into common usage
until the 19th century, it is now also applied to historic anti-Jewish
incidents
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Arab Spring
The
Arab SpringArab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎ ar-Rabīʻ
al-ʻArabī), also referred to as Arab revolutions (Arabic:
الثورات العربية‎ aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah), was a
revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations,
protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North
Africa and the
Middle EastMiddle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia
with the Tunisian Revolution.
The effects of the Tunisian
RevolutionRevolution spread strongly to five other
countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen,
SyriaSyria and Bahrain, where either the
regime was toppled or major uprisings and social violence occurred,
including riots, civil wars or insurgencies. Sustained street
demonstrations took place in Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Iranian
Khuzestan, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait,
OmanOman and Sudan
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